1 Twis met julle moeder, twis; want sy is nie my vrou nie, en Ek is nie haar man nie, en laat sy haar hoerery van haar aangesig verwyder en haar owerspel van haar borste af weg.

2 Anders sal Ek haar naak uittrek en haar neersit soos op die dag van haar geboorte en haar maak soos 'n woestyn, ja, haar stel soos 'n dor land en haar van dors laat sterwe.

3 En Ek sal My oor haar kinders nie ontferm nie, want hulle is kinders uit hoerery gebore.

4 Want hulle moeder het in ontug gelewe, sy wat met hulle swanger was, het skandelike dinge gedoen; want sy het gesê: Ek wil my minnaars agternaloop wat my brood en my water, my wol en my vlas, my olie en my drank gee.

5 Daarom, kyk, Ek sal jou weg met dorings toemaak en om haar 'n muur bou, sodat sy haar paaie nie sal vind nie.

6 En sy sal haar minnaars agternaloop, maar hulle nie inhaal nie; en sy sal hulle soek, maar nie vind nie. Dan sal sy sê: Ek wil heengaan en terugkeer na my vorige man, want toe het ek dit beter gehad as nou.

7 Ja, sy het nie erken dat Ek aan haar die koring en die mos en die olie gegee het nie, ook silwer vir haar vermenigvuldig het en goud, wat hulle vir Ba„l gebruik het.

8 Daarom sal Ek my koring terugneem in die oestyd en my mos op die bepaalde tyd, en wegneem my wol en my vlas wat dien om haar naaktheid te bedek.

9 Ek sal dan nou haar skaamte ontbloot voor die oë van haar minnaars, en niemand sal haar uit my hand red nie.

10 En Ek maak 'n einde aan al haar vreugde, haar feeste, haar nuwemane en haar sabbatte, ja, aan al haar feestye.

11 En Ek sal haar wingerdstok en haar vyeboom verwoes waarvan sy gesê het: Hierdie dinge is my hoereloon wat my minnaars my gegee het; en Ek sal dit tot 'n bos maak, en die wilde diere van die veld sal dit opeet.

12 So besoek Ek dan aan haar die dae van die Ba„ls toe sy vir hulle offerrook laat opgaan het en haar met haar neusring en haar halssierade versier en haar minnaars agternageloop het; maar My het sy vergeet, spreek die HERE.

13 Daarom, kyk, Ek sal haar lok en haar in die woestyn lei en na haar hart spreek.

14 Dan sal Ek haar daarvandaan haar wingerde gee en die dal Agor tot 'n deur van hoop, en daar sal sy antwoord gee soos in die dae van haar jeug en soos die dag toe sy uit Egipteland opgetrek het.

15 En in die dag, spreek die HERE, sal jy My noem: My man; en jy sal my nie meer noem: My Ba„l nie.

16 Dan verwyder Ek die name van die Ba„ls uit haar mond, sodat hulle by hul naam nie meer genoem sal word nie.

17 Verder sluit Ek in die dag vir hulle 'n verbond met die wilde diere van die veld en met die voëls van die hemel en die kruipende diere van die aarde; ja, boog en swaard en oorlog sal Ek verbreek uit die land, en Ek sal hulle in veiligheid laat rus.

18 En Ek sal My met jou verloof tot in ewigheid en My met jou verloof in geregtigheid en in reg en in goedertierenheid en in ontferming.

19 En Ek sal My met jou verloof in trou; dan sal jy die HERE ken.

20 En in die dag sal Ek verhoor, spreek die HERE, Ek sal die hemel verhoor en die sal die aarde verhoor.

21 En die aarde sal die koring verhoor en die mos en die olie, en die sal J¡sreël verhoor.

22 En Ek sal haar vir My saai in die land en My oor Lo-Rug ma ontferm, en aan Lo-Ammi sê: Jy is my volk; en hy sal sê: My God!

1 Say to your brothers, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

2 Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;

3 For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

4 And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.

5 For their mother has been untrue; she who gave them birth has done things of shame, for she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my wine.

6 For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

7 And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.

8 For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.

9 So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.

10 And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.

11 And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.

12 And I will make waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, These are the payments which my lovers have made to me; and I will make them a waste of trees, and the beasts of the field will take them for food.

13 And I will give her punishment for the days of the Baals, to whom she has been burning perfumes, when she made herself fair with her nose-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, giving no thought to me, says the Lord.

14 For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.

15 And I will give her vine-gardens from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will give her answer there as in the days when she was young, and as in the time when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

16 And in that day, says the Lord, you will say to me, Ishi; and you will never again give me the name of Baali;

17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.

18 And in that day I will make an agreement for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven and the things which go low on the earth; I will put an end to the bow and the sword and war in all the land, and will make them take their rest in peace.

19 And I will take you as my bride for ever; truly, I will take you as my bride in righteousness and in right judging, in love and in mercies.

20 I will take you as my bride in good faith, and you will have knowledge of the Lord.

21 And it will be, in that day, says the Lord, that I will give an answer to the heavens, and the heavens to the earth;

22 And the earth will give its answer to the grain and the wine and the oil, and they will give an answer to Jezreel;

23 And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.